Project Details
Description
Big Tissue and Society
‘Big Tissue’ - the promise and achievement of significant upscale in tissue engineering and biofabrication – is a coming force in biomedicine. This project contends that Big Tissue represents both a quantitative change (more tissue) and a qualitative change (novel socio-material relationships, politics, and ethics) that require urgent attention as they come into being. The project will conduct interview, documentary, and observational analysis of four case-studies of fields seeking to produce industrial quantities of tissue for diverse uses: blood, meat, skin, and biofabricated animal products. It will assess the social, material, and economic context of Big Tissue today and define the agenda for social science analysis of Big Tissue going forward.
‘Big Tissue’ - the promise and achievement of significant upscale in tissue engineering and biofabrication – is a coming force in biomedicine. This project contends that Big Tissue represents both a quantitative change (more tissue) and a qualitative change (novel socio-material relationships, politics, and ethics) that require urgent attention as they come into being. The project will conduct interview, documentary, and observational analysis of four case-studies of fields seeking to produce industrial quantities of tissue for diverse uses: blood, meat, skin, and biofabricated animal products. It will assess the social, material, and economic context of Big Tissue today and define the agenda for social science analysis of Big Tissue going forward.
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Keywords
- HM Sociology